Trousers-stretcher



UNITED STATES PATENT orties.

OSCAR BERNHARD HELLSTROM, OF NEUTRAL BAY, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES,

' AUSTRALIA.

TROUSERS-STRETCHER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 10, 1921.

Application led October 21, 1920. Serial No. 418,536.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, OsoAn BERNHARD HnLLsTRoM, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Neutral Bay, Sydney, in the State `of New South Wales, Commonwealth ofAustralia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trousers- Stretchers, of which the following is a speciication. f

This invention relates to improvements in trousers stretchers adapted to be readily applied to chairs, wardrobes, or other convenient furniture or fixture.

To the back of the chair or other approximately straight piece of furniture or fixture is attached two oppositely positioned brackets provided with guides or slots in which pins on the ends of a transverse bar are capable of sliding enabling said bar to partially rotate. The inner side of said bar is beveled so that when one end of the trousers, usually the waist end, is placed beween the bar and the rail of the chair or other straight fixed piece of furniture or the like it is wedged tightly therein on partially rotating the barn On one of the bottom rails of the chair or other suitable article of furniture is or are hinged or pivoted one or two clamps whose free ends extend upwardly. The opposite end of the trousers is then drawn tightly b v hand to stretch the garment and is inserted between said clamp or clamps and vertical slats or boards on the chair or other suitable furniture fixture. Through a slot in each clamp passes a short arm fixed to the corresponding vertical slat and on said arm is pivoted a cam lever which on being operated forces the clamp toward its corresponding vertical slat and securely retains the end of the stretched trousers.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the invention as applied to a chair.

Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation showing clamp compressed against its corresponding seat, while Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the clamp in the released position.

Fig. 4 is a part sectional elevation illustrating the invention applied to the wall or tdoor of a wardrobe or other piece of furniure.

In Figs. 1 to 3, the brackets 5 and 6 are preferably made integral with the respective members 7 and 8 of the chair back. These brackets however may be secured by screws or the like. In the brackets are the opposite slots or oruides 9 and 10 in which slide the pins 11 and 12 on the transverse bar 13 having a bevel edge 14 which bar is capable of partial rotation on its pins 11 and 12. To the seat or seat rail 15 and to the rail 16 are rigidly secured one or more vertical slats or boards 17 to which are hinged clamps 18 provided with slots 19. A metal or other arm 20 is secured to each slat and passed through the slot 19 in its respective clamp. On each of said arms is a pivoted cam 21 provided with an operating handle 22.

.In Fig. 4, 23 is the wall or other straight piece of furniture or fixture', each bracket being affixed by screws 24er other fastenings. In this case slats maybe dispensed with, each clamp 18 being hinged to the wall 23 to which also is secured each of the arms 20.

I claim In combination with a supporting element,`

brackets thereon, a transverse bar mounted. in the brackets for vertical sliding movement and also for partial rotation, said bar being adapted to hold one end of a pair of trousers, a plurality of clamps adapted to hol d the opposite end of the trousers, said clamps being each hinged at its lower end to said supporting element for vertical swinging movement and having a vertical slot, arms projecting from the supporting element through said slots, and cams pivotally mounted on said arms and bearing against the outer sides of the said clamps.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

OSCAR BERNHARD HELLSIROM. 

